BRAHMASPHUTA SIDDHANTA & KHANDKHADYAKA edition. The total mumber of verses in this work is 403. The Suryasiddhanta has, as stated above, 500 verses in all. 72 Laghu-bhaskariya The Laghu-Bhaskariya is also divided into eight chapters, each chapter is known as Adhyaya. The subject matter in the book has been dealt with as follows: Subject Adhyāya I Mean longitudes of the Planets Adhyāya II True Longitudes of the Planets Adhyaya III Adhyāya IV The Lunar Eclipse Ādhyaya V The Solar Eclipse Adhyāya VI Adhyaya VII Adhyaya VIII Direction, Place and Time from Shadow Visibility, Phases and Rising and Setting of the Moon Visibility and Con- junction of the Planets Conjunction of a Pla- net and a Star Number of verses 37 35 32 15 25 10 19 The total number of verses in this text is 214. The Laghu- Bhaskariyam is thus an abridged edition of the Maha-Bhaskarıyam. From the closing stanza of this work it is clear that the author wrote this work for the benefit of young students with immature mind by condensing and simplifying the contents of his larger work, the Maha-Bhasariyam (also known as Karma-nibandha). Thus we have a little of the parallelism: Brahmagupta, after finishing his bigger treatise, the Brahma-sphujasiddhanta, wrote a minor abridged work, the Khanda-khadyaka, as a karaṇa grantha. This latter work of Brahmagupta, however, incorporates some original ideas not included in the earlier work. Shukla has given an analytical table indicating the rules of the Maha- Bhaskaryam incorporated in the Laghu-Bhaskaryam also in an abridged or modified form, and also a list of the rules which have been omitted in the Laghu-Bhasakriya. There are a few rules in the Laghu-Bhaskarya also which have no counterpart in the
